As Democrats begin Trump impeachment, key 'Russiagate' case may be imploding
rt.com | 2019-09-25
President Donald Trump's security adviser Michael Flynn was the first casualty of 'Russiagate' impeachment push, but the case against him seems weaker than ever, after a federal judge voided the conviction of his business partner. | Flynn, a retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was forced to resign in February 2017, after less than two weeks of serving as national security adviser. He was snared in an FBI perjury trap as part of surveillance of the Trump campaign — which was predicated on claims it was "colluding" with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. | Though t…
rt.com/usa/469544-flynn-russiagate-rafiekian-impeachment/
Memo Reveals Trump Pushed Ukraine Leader on Biden Claims
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-25
WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry (all times local): | 10: 10 a.m. | The memo summarizing President Donald Trump's call with the Ukraine leader shows the president's lingering fixation on special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. | Trump flippantly refers to the ex-FBI director as a "man named Robert Mueller" and says he turned in "a very poor performance." | The memo also shows that the president made reference to the private cybersecurity firm that investigated Russia's hack of t…
truthdig.com/articles/memo-proves-trump-prodded-ukraine-leader-on-biden-claims/
Putin Backs Venezuela Talks in Meeting With Maduro in Moscow
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-25
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his support of Venezuela'snew round of dialogue Wednesday as he met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Kremlin to discuss further cooperation between the two countries. | RELATED | Venezuela: PSUV Lawmakers Return to National Assembly Tuesday | The meeting tok place as both Putin and Maduro skipped the United Nations General Assembly taking place in New York. Moscow ¥s support has been essential for the South Am…
telesurenglish.net/news/Putin-Maduro-Meet-Moscow-20190925-0009.html
Putin Backs Venezuela Talks in Meeting With Maduro in Moscow
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-25
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his support of Venezuela'snew round of dialogue Wednesday as he met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Kremlin to discuss further cooperation between the two countries. | RELATED | Venezuela: PSUV Lawmakers Return to National Assembly Tuesday | The meeting tok place as both Putin and Maduro skipped the United Nations General Assembly taking place in New York. Moscow ¥s support has been essential for the South Am…
telesurenglish.net/news/Putin-Maduro-Meet-Moscow-20190925-0009.html
Hinkley nuclear power station costs increase by up to £3bn
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-25
The cost of building the new nuclear power station at Hinkley is estimated to increase by between £1.9bn and £2.9bn.French energy giant EDF said the plant in Somerset will now cost between £21.5bn and £22.5bn.The company said the cost increases reflect "challenging ground conditions" which made earthworks more expensive than anticipated.Work is well under way at the site, and EDF said it expects the plant to begin generating power at the end of 2025 (Ben Birchall/PA)Action plan targets have been revised and extra costs are needed to implement the completed functional design, which has been…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/09/25/hinkley-nuclear-power-station-costs-increase-by-up-to-3bn/
Pelosi announces IMPEACHMENT inquiry over Ukraine call, Trump says it will help him win elections
rt.com | 2019-09-24
President Donald Trump has called a looming impeachment inquiry against him a "positive," saying it will help him "win the election." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the investigation shortly afterwards. | Speaking to reporters at the UN General Assembly in New York, Trump said that impeachment would be "a positive for me," adding "we will win the election." | Democrats in Congress have threatened to impeach Trump countless times already — sometimes for non-offenses like "being such good friends with Putin," or making up…
rt.com/usa/469537-trump-pelosi-impeach-election/
Russia Summons US Diplomat After They Declined Visa For UN
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-24
Russia summoned on Tuesday a senior U.S. diplomat in Moscow to protest over what it said was Washington's unacceptable refusal to issue visas to members of a Russian delegation traveling to the United Nations General Assembly. | RELATED: | EU Extends Economic Sanctions Against Russia for 6 More Months | The Kremlin promised a tough response and said Jon Huntsman, the U.S. amba…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Summons-US-Diplomat-After-They-Declined-Visa-For-UN-20190924-0005.html
Kazakhstan continues to push for a nuclear-free world
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-24
Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country which has renounced nuclear weapons, continued on Tuesday to urge the international community to make a nuclear-free world reality.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1047362
Cracks emerge in NATO confrontation of Russia
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-24
Stephen F. Cohen argues that cracks are emerging within the NATO-led consensus that has pushed Moscow from the West. Guest: …
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/24/cracks-emerge-in-nato-confrontation-of-russia/
Russia's Middle East Strategy: "Balance" vs. "Betrayal"?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
There's an intense debate raging within the Alternative and Independent media over whether Russia's contemporary Mideast strategy amounts to "balancing" or "betraying" the Resistance given the Eurasian Great Power's extremely close military cooperation with "Israel" in Syria. | The Freakish Fusion …
globalresearch.ca/russias-middle-east-strategy-balance-vs-betrayal/5690056
Alexandrópolis, a nova base USA contra a Rússia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
"Acabei de voltar de Alexandrópolis, uma visita estrategicamente importante que se concentrou nas relaàßàµes militares excepcionais entre os Estados Unidos e a Grécia e no investimento estratégico que o governo dos EUA está a fazer em Alexandrópolis": declarou, em 16 …
globalresearch.ca/alexandropolis-a-nova-base-usa-contra-a-russia/5690122
Alessandropoli, nuova base Usa contro la Russia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
´Sono appena ritornato da Alessandropoli, una visita strategicamente importante che ha messo a fuoco sia le eccezionali relazioni militari fra Stati uniti e Grecia, sia l'investimento strategico che il governo degli Stati uniti sta facendo ad Alessandropoli ª: lo ha dichiarato …
globalresearch.ca/alessandropoli-nuova-base-usa-contro-la-russia/5690114
Canada's Role in US Empire
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-23
While France, Germany, Russia and China seek detente, Canada is increasingly part of the US-Saudi Arabia-Israeli axis stoking conflict with Iran. Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto to compensate individuals in the US who had family members killed in a 2002 Hamas bombing in Israel and …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/canadas-role-in-us-empire/
The Modern Day Scramble for Africa
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-23
From the US to China to Israel to Russia, governments are positioning resources — both civilian and military — in various African nations for various reasons. Jacqueline Luqman talks to Maurice Carney about who are the players on the continent, what do they want, what does this mean for the future of Africa and Africans,…
therealnews.com/stories/the-modern-day-scramble-for-africa
NOT 'the last thing millennials will see'! US military apologizes for 'Area 51 raid' meme with B-2 stealth bomber
rt.com | 2019-09-22
A US military unit was forced to apologize to UFO fans and alien enthusiasts for a tweet that suggested the government is ready to use B-2 nuclear-capable bombers to protect the secrets held inside the classified Area 51 facility. | Jumping on the hype train headed for the secretive air force base in Nevada desert, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) flexed its meme muscles on Friday by tweeting a photo of a B-2 stealth bomber, accompanied by a chilling warning: | The last thing #Millennials will see if they attempt the #area51raid today. | In case anyone wanted to see the tweet in ques…
rt.com/usa/469334-area-51-military-meme-apology/
Didn't he learn what deterrence is? Cruz insists Iran wants to nuke American cities, puzzles Twitter
rt.com | 2019-09-22
Ted Cruz insists Tehran's dream is to nuke American cities and that the Iran nuclear deal is to blame for the attack on Saudi oil facilities. The argument was mocked for making no sense, but the hawkish senator doubled down. | The Texas legislator, one of the most vocal cheerleaders of Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign against Tehran, took to the pages of the New York Post on Friday to warn the public of the imminent danger. More international sanctions against Iran may soon be dropped under the 2015 nuclear deal, which means Tehran is drawing closer to obtaining nuclear weapons which "could incinerat…
rt.com/usa/469367-ted-cruz-iran-bomb-us-cities/
Media Omit Context Behind Latest North Korean Missile Tests
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2019-09-20
by Joshua Cho | In his 2004 book North Korea: Another Country, historian Bruce Cumings described the irony of corporate media's perpetual narrative of North Korea as an unhinged or devious adversary of the US with hostile nuclear ambitions: Almost always, media discussion of North Korea assumes that Washington is in a position of original innocence, and the North is assiduously trying to obtain and then to use "weapons of mass destruction"–the ubiquitous media trope for the arsenals of American enemies since the Cold War ended. Yet the American record in Northeast Asia since the 1940s is one of consistent us…
fair.org/home/media-omit-context-behind-latest-north-korean-missile-tests/
Challenges and Opportunities toward Iran in the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-09-19
Negotiations for the Caspian Sea legal regime began almost immediately after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, but at the beginning of the process there were no negotiations on a single text. Prior to that, Iran and the Soviet Union used this sea commonly, though in practice the Soviet Union, by using its power …
uwidata.com/5358-challenges-and-opportunities-toward-iran-in-the-convention-on-the-legal-status-of-the-caspian-sea/
Outing of CIA's Kremlin mole echoes Iraq WMD hoax
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-15
The outing of a CIA informant inside of the Kremlin raises new questions about the Russia investigation and the intelligence…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/15/outing-of-cias-kremlin-mole-echoes-iraq-wmd-hoax/
Venezuela Oil Production Continues Decline as China Cancels More Shipments
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-09-12
Russian oil giant Rosneft blasted threats of US sanctions as "unfair competition."
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14654
US conducts ground launch cruise missile test
Ian Gamble | liberationnews.org | 2019-09-02
On Aug. 18, less than three weeks after scrapping the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, the U.S. launched a ballistic cruise missile from San Nicholas Island, CA.
liberationnews.org/us-conducts-ground-launch-cruise-missile-test/